Pending Legislation in California
State Senate
- SB1729 Care Facilities – Sensitivity Training
Requires physicians, nurses and other personnel in senior care facilities to participate in sensitivity training focusing on sexual orientation and gender. INTRODUCED BY Senator Migden OPPOSE
Status:AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 8, 2008
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 3, 2008
- SB 621Parental Notification for Confidential Medical Services
Existing law allows minors at school to receive various medical, dental, mental health, and counseling services without the consent of his or her parent or guardian.
The law also requires the school district to notify students and their parents or guardians that school authorities may excuse a pupil from school to obtain confidential medical services without parental consent. This notice is allowed to be sent with any other notice sent to a parent or guardian.
Most parents are unaware that their children may be receiving "confidential medical services" during the school day, without parental involvement. Introduced by Senator Harman. Support
05/07/2007 Placed on Appropriations Suspense file.
- SB 564-Expanding School-Based Health Clinics (Ridley-Thomas)Recently amended, SB 654 deserves the attention of all public school parents. SB 654 greatly expands the powers and services of school-based health clinics. The bill now gives school health centers the power to "conduct routine physical health, mental health, and oral health assessments, and provide for any services not offered onsite or through a referral process." Many of these centers are used to provide birth control for girls, facilitate abortions at abortion clinics off campus, dispense psychotropic drugs, and other controversial services-all without parental notification or consent. CRI maintains that parents-not schools or the government-should care for their children's health. Expanding school health centers increases the government's nanny intervention in families' personal matters. (CRI)
Please contact the Assembly Appropriations Committee and tell them to vote "NO" on SB 564!
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SB 777-Homosexual Indoctrination in School (Kuehl)
Almost identical to last session's highly controversial SB 1437, this legislation would ban any textbooks, teaching or activities in schools that "promotes a discriminatory bias against" homosexuals, transgenders, bisexuals, and those with gender (perceived or actual) issues. SB 777 goes much further than any other past attack on the moral and religious beliefs of Californians. CRI has come under attack by homosexual advocacy groups for our opposition to this bill. Their hate mail and bullying tactics belie their true intentions: only politically correct "tolerance" will be allowed. (CRI)
Contact your Assembly Member and tell him/her to vote "NO" on SB 37 and SB 777!
PROPOSED MARRIAGE INITIATIVES
In mid-July, three initiatives designed to protect the definition of marriage were approved for circulation by the California Attorney General's office. If the proponents are successful in collecting enough valid signatures, the initiative (s) would be on the June 3, 2008 ballot. The proposed initiatives are:
- Limit on Marriage. Constitutional Amendment. (California Marriage Protection Act-Version 1), a constitutional amendment which states: Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Proponents, ProtectMarriage.com, have until December 13, 2007 to collect and submit the required 694,354 signatures.
- Limit on Marriage. Constitutional Amendment. (California Marriage Protection Act-Version 2), a constitutional amendment which states: Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. This provision shall not affect the rights, benefits and obligations conferred by California law on other domestic relationships. Proponents, ProtectMarriage.com, have until December 14, 2007 to collect and submit the required 694,354 signatures.
- Marriage. Elimination of Domestic Partnership Rights. Constitutional Amendment, a constitutional amendment which provides that only marriage between one man and one woman is valid or recognized in California; defines man and woman; voids certain rights and obligations conferred by California law on same-sex and opposite-sex couples registered as domestic partners. Proponents, VoteYesMarriage.com, have until December 13, 2007 to collect and submit the required 694,354 signatures.
State Assembly
- AB2747 End of Life Care - Euthanasia
Requires that doctors who diagnose a terminal illness or make a prognosis that a patient has less than one year to live provide the patient the opportunity to receive comprehensive legal end-of-life options or a referral to a provider who will do so. Such counseling would include palliative sedation defined as sedation to render one unconscious with withdrawal of food and water. INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Berg and Levine
OPPOSE
Status: AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 7, 2008 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 25, 2008
Authorizes a state tax credit of $500 for each dependent child in grades K-12 attending a qualified private primary or secondary school or homeschool. SUPPORT
Status: Assembly Revenue and Tax CommissionHearing: 05-05-2008
Calls on the California Courts to denounce the recent appellate court opinion criminalizing homeschooling and to acknowledge the right of parents. SUPPORT
Referred to: Assembly Education Comte
Criminalizes spanking in California, presumably under specific circumstances, but actually in terms that could be broadly interpreted and could be used to punish parents in their proper role of using reasonable corporal punishment in disciplining their child.
Status: Passed Assembly Public Safety
Comm.
04-30-08 Assembly Appropriations
Committee Hearing
- AB 374—Legalizing Euthanasia in California
Deceptively titled California Compassionate Choices Act, AB 374 would allow for terminally ill adults, who are given less than six months to live, to obtain drugs from a physician to kill themselves. OPPOSE
Shelved: Place in Assembly inactive file
- AB 14 –Homosexual ‘Discrimination’
AB 14 is scheduled for a hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, March 27.
This legislation would grant more special privileges to homosexuals by enacting the “Civil Rights Act of 2007.” By changing 51 areas of the law, AB 14 will give homosexual a wide variety of “protections” that directly conflict with the basic rights of religious and moral citizens of California. OPPOSE
AB 14 may be voted on by the Senate at any time.
- AB 16 - Human Papillomavirus Vaccine for School-age Girls
This bill would make mandatoryy that all girls receive the vaccine before entering the 7th grade.
This bill has been put on hold after committee members expressed concerns about the fact that parental notification and consent are missing from a law that would mandate a controversial STD vaccination. OPPOSE Withdrawn for further consideration after a grassroots effort
08/24/07 AB 16 was heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee this week and placed in the suspense file. This means that the committee will vote on the bill next week.
- AB1009 Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2008
This bill would enact the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2008, to require, with an exemption for medical emergency, the physician performing the abortion to offer to the pregnant woman information and counseling on fetal pain. SUPPORT
- AB 43 -Homosexual Marriage (Leno)
In 2000, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 22, which clearly stated that marriage in California is defined as between a man and a woman. Despite the people of California clearly deciding this issue, AB 43 seeks to redefine marriage as being between two people-regardless of gender. This is yet another example of the arrogance of lawmakers in their belief that they better than the citizens they supposedly represent.
AB 43 is currently in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Will be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee Monday, Aug 20.
